Therefore APA – Austria Press Agency in cooperation with Bank Austria, a member of UniCredit, created the journalism prize “Writing for Central Europe”. (read more…)

In order to promote, develop and enrich the resources GEYC Resource center has launched a call for candidates for the position of “New Media Ambassador”, a 2 months practical training in the field of social media, multimedia, PR and communication skills. (read more…)

The protest took place in support of the criminal reporter Boris Mitov who had to give explanations to the prosecutors twice in relation to his critical publication on a wiretapping scandal, involving Sofia’s vice-chief prosecutor Roman Vassilev and the current head of the state legal authority Sotir Tsatsarov.

More than 100 Bulgarian journalists and citizens gathered on Monday in front of the Palace of Justice in Sofia to protest against the violation of freedom of speech by the state prosecution. The protest took place in support of the criminal reporter Boris Mitov who had to give explanations to the prosecutors twice in relation to his critical publication on a wiretapping scandal, involving Sofia’s vice-chief prosecutor Roman Vassilev and the current head of the state legal authority Sotir Tsatsarov. (read more…)

On October 2nd, 2013, for the second time the Berlin University for Professional Studies and fjum_forum for journalism and media vienna start their program designed to assist media businesses in shaping the future of their industry. (read more…)

America for Bulgaria Foundation in association with the World Press Institute is offering an exciting opportunity for an early to mid-career Bulgarian journalist with 5 – 15 years professional experience to take up a media fellowship in the United States later this year. (read more…)

The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is pleased to announce that it has received financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance journalistic coverage of issues related to global development and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Therefore, in 2013 the EJC will implement a grants programme supported by the Gates Foundation. (read more…)

The Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) is concerned that the Bulgarian society has been deprived of the opportunity to be objectively informed in order to take its decision on the upcoming national referendum on the development of nuclear energy.  The problems lays in the fact that financial barriers have been applied on the participants in the information campaign in the media. Therefore, AEJ-Bulgaria insists that any paid content in the media regarding the referendum has to be clearly labelled as ”paid advertisement”. (read more…)

The Wincott Fellowships for Journalists from Bulgaria and Russia at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, is open for application. (read more…)

The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) in Vienna announces a new call for applications for Milena Jesenská Fellowships, 2013-2014. (read more…)

The Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ – Bulgaria) took a runner-up award Human of the Year 2012 of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) on Monday. The award is dedicated to outstanding contribution to human rights and was presented on Human Rights Day, December 10, during a ceremony in Sofia. (read more…)